{"id":4625,"date":"2017-04-29T20:46:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T03:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=4625"},"modified":"2021-07-30T03:45:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T10:45:05","slug":"uk-security-forces-claim-reliable-way-decrypt-encrypted-whatsapp-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/uk-security-forces-claim-reliable-way-decrypt-encrypted-whatsapp-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"UK security forces claim to have reliable way to decrypt encrypted Whatsapp messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in the UK have announced that they have uncovered the last Whatsapp message sent by the perpetrator of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/united-kingdom-looks-ban-encrypted-messaging-apps-westminster-attack\/\">Westminster attack<\/a>. The news was first reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/last-message-left-by-westminster-attacker-khalid-masood-uncovered-by-security-agencies-a7706561.html\">The Independent<\/a>, which wrote: \u201cDetails of the method used cannot be disclosed for security reasons, but sources said they now have the technical expertise to repeat the process in future.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Are WhatsApp messages really protected and encrypted?<\/h2>\n<p>The UK authorities won\u2019t reveal exactly how the supposedly encrypted WhatsApp message was unencrypted. We don\u2019t know if the message was taken from the device\u2019s RAM, from some sort of predictive text messaging cache, from an encryption backdoor, granted by divine intervention or a giant smurf, or given up by the encrypted Whatsapp message recipient\u2019s device somehow \u2013 and we won\u2019t. They simply won\u2019t tell us for\u00a0\u201csecurity reasons.\u201d All they would say is that the uncovering of the Whatsapp message came about as a result of\u00a0\u201chuman and technical intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They did question the recipient of the message \u201cextensively\u201d but they let him go after it was determined that he did not participate in the plot. Still, security forces were confident that they now know how to recover Whatsapp messages. Those that are concerned about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/whatsapp-facebook-might-soon-share-data\/\">Facebook and WhatsApp<\/a> can and should leave both\u00a0platforms. This is actually an opinion shared by Facebook. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/tech\/software\/users-free-to-quit-whatsapp-if-they-dont-like-privacy-policy-facebook\/articleshow\/58410331.cms\">The Economic Times<\/a>, Facebook India\u2019s counsel K K Venugopal told the Indian Supreme Court:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThose who find the new privacy policy irksome or violative of their fundamental rights, can quit. We\u2019ve given full freedom to users to withdraw from Facebook and WhatsApp.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in the UK have announced that they have uncovered the last Whatsapp message sent by the perpetrator of the Westminster attack. The news was first reported by The Independent, which wrote: \u201cDetails of the method used cannot be disclosed for security reasons, but sources said they now have the technical expertise to repeat the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/uk-security-forces-claim-reliable-way-decrypt-encrypted-whatsapp-messages\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UK security forces claim to have reliable way to decrypt encrypted Whatsapp messages&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":true,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1001,1,130],"tags":[449,191],"class_list":["post-4625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-encryption","category-news","category-governments","tag-decrypt","tag-united-kingdom"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UK security forces claim to have reliable way to decrypt encrypted Whatsapp messages<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Authorities in the UK have announced that they have uncovered the last Whatsapp message sent by the perpetrator of the Westminster attack. 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